The
Case of the Disappearing Spider Veins.By: Dr. William Wong ND, PhD.

Three
years ago I was working with a fibromyalgia
/ lower back patient restoring her strength
and ability. She had been
debilitated by fibromyalgia for some
5 years prior and had strained her back
while attempting to cope with life in
a weakened state. For the 20 years
prior this 40’s something gal had
been an executive for a well known cosmetics
company. Along with the rehab
and general strengthening exercises we
were doing, I had her start taking Systemic
Enzymes as a natural no side effect way
to relieve the inflammation causing her
back pain and, to eat away at the fibrosis
of her Fibromyalgia. (Fibrosis
is the actual cause of the ischemic muscle
pain of fibromyalgia).

Three
months went by with this determined gal
exercising hard, getting stronger raising
her energy levels and improving her ability
to do the all important Activities of
Daily Living (ADL’s). One
day she bounces into the office and announces
that not only is her back and Fibromyalgia
pain mostly gone but a great many of
her spider veins had disappeared and
her varicose veins no longer hurt! It
had to be something we were doing she
said, either the exercise or the enzymes
because nothing else was different in
her life or daily routine!

After
a bit of head scratching and research
diving we discovered it was mostly the
enzymes that were doing the trick. Yes,
large range-of-motion resistance exercise
pushes the pooled blood out of the stretched
blood vessels and can temporarily drain
them. Yet, in all the decades
of exercise research, no one has ever
found a way of making spider veins go
away or reducing the flaccidity of veins
that are already fully stretched out
(varicosed) using exercise of any sort.

So what
are enzymes? Enzymes are “bio-catalysts” they
cause chemical reactions to happen. We
have some 3000 enzymes and over 7000
enzymatic reactions in our bodies. Without
enzymes we would be stone cold dead! Moreover,
enzymes are essential for vitamins and
minerals to work. Everyone has
experienced the fact that even though
a certain vitamin or mineral is supposed
to do a particular thing, it does not
work for everyone the same way all the
time. Most of us take supplements
and really can’t tell whether they
are working or not. One person
might feel great another not feel any
good effect at all.

Vitamins
and minerals are misnamed, they are really
co-enzymes and co-factors. In other words,
they are things that make enzymes work
better; but what if you don’t have
much of the enzymes to begin with? Then
the co-enzymes won’t work! In
our youth we made a slew of enzymes,
that’s what kept us young, strong,
without pain, healing quickly and frankly
looking good. After the age of
27 Physiology teaches that we enter “old
age”! That’s right
27! From 27 to 35 we have the fastest
and steepest drop in our health, looks
and ability we’ll ever have in
less than a decade. Why?

Enzymes
or the lack of them are the trigger to
aging. Dr. Max Wolf MD and Ph.D.
x 7 is the fellow who discovered the
enzyme / aging relationship while he
was doing research at Columbia University
in the 1930’s and 40’s. He
found that the body makes a finite amount
of enzymes in a lifetime. We use
up a good many of them in our youth and
so round about 27 the body slows down
the release of it’s protein cutting
enzymes (the most important ones), and
then begins to dole them out with an
eyedropper instead of a tablespoon as
it did before. And further, every
year it produces less and less enzymes
in order to stretch life out a little
further. What happens as this depletion
progresses? The hydrolytic / proteolytic (protein
cutting) enzymes are responsible for
hundreds of things but their most important
actions are:

They
are the bodies’ first line of
defense against inflammation. Think of
when you were a kid, you walked off or
shrugged off injuries that now would
lay you up for a week. Enzymes.

Enzymes
control the rate and accuracy of healing. They
speed healing without allowing the build
up of scar tissue. Think of the
wounds you healed as a kid, with their
thin, strong, plyable, almost invisible
scar. Now think of your wounds
lately, thicker, knotty with scar tissue,
not as strong and certainly not invisible!

Systemic Enzymes
eat away at the fibrosis the body
does not need! Though
the development of fibrosis conditions
such as Fibro Cystic Breast Disease,
Uterine Fibroids and Endometriosis
are all linked with being Estrogen
Dominant, fibrosis conditions of all
types cannot happen or are dramatically
lessened if there are enough strong
protein cutting enzymes present in
the body.

They
also clean the protein coating that
connective tissue builds up (polymerization). Why
is that important? Well if the
connective tissue is under the skin and
holding it up, when it develops a coating
of protein, it won’t hold water
any more and collapses – bingo
you’ve got a wrinkle. Restore
the water holding ability of the connective
tissue and the wrinkle is gone or eased
considerably.

Enzymes
regulate immune function. If the
system is to run down, the enzymes will
increase the cleaning / killing action
of the white blood cells on bugs and
increase the bodies production of good
things called Natural Killer cells. If
the immune system is running to high
and creating auto immune conditions such
as MS, Lupus or Rheumatoid Arthritis,
then the enzymes will down shift the
immune system, control inflammation and
eat the antibodies the immune system
is creating to attack it’s own
tissue!

Protein
cutting enzymes clean the blood of
all the debris the liver can’t
manage to clear out of the blood on
the “first
pass” or the first time the garbage
goes though the liver in the blood. This
purifies the blood and makes it flow
easier. Not only do they clean
the blood, the enzymes also strengthen
blood vessel walls and open micro circulation
passages clogged with fibrin improving
circulation overall.

Even
if they didn’t make spider veins
disappear, all those actions listed above
are enough of a reason to go and supplement
enzymes for the rest of your life.

The Systemic
Enzymes effect on spider veins was discovered
when patients in Europe, where doctors
prescribe systemic enzymes, reported
the clearing up of spider veins and easing
of varicose vein discomfort. Studies
done afterward on the effect of oral
enzymes in circulatory diseases confirmed
the casual findings.

Now be
warned; just like anything else that
works, there are some folks who will
turn out a like product that won’t. Enzymes
are finicky living critters and if not
handled just right during the blending,
tableting or encapsulation process they
will die and not ever work. In
2000, I had my wife Michele on a load
of a leading systemic enzyme to prevent
the formation of scar tissue after the
emergency c-section birth of our son. To
my astonishment almost a year afterward,
her scar tissue development was extensive. It
ran from the incision to just under her
ribs, and wound into the abdomen threatening
to choke off her intestines! (That
danger usually requires surgery to free
the bowels). Her “bubble” of
spider web like scar tissue was palpable
(touchable) from the outside and was
even restricting her leaning back. I
changed to a different enzyme product
in 2002 and in 6 weeks the scar tissue
was completely and totally gone – eaten
away safely and painlessly!

“Sounds
like fairy dust; too good to be true” you
say! Look up the recommended readings
below and convince yourself otherwise
that spider veins, wrinkles, inflammation
and fibrosis are not incurable conditions. Remember
beauty begins on the inside!

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